Administrative note

[Murthy Yenamandra]

An administrative note:

If your post to pynchon-l takes an unusually long time to show up on the
list, it's possible that it is waiting for the list owner's approval to
go on the list (and it might take a while, especially on weekends,
before I process it). Even though pynchon-l is an unmoderated list, here
are a few reasons why a message might need to be approved before going
out to the list:

1. Messages from non-members. This means that the message is sent from
an address that's not recognized as that of a list member. If you have
multiple accounts, you can avoid delays by consistently using the same
address to subscribe and post to pynchon-l. All non-member posts are
checked for relevant and meaningful content (no junk mail etc) before
they are forwarded to the list.

2. Messages exceeding 10K. This generally means pictures and in a few
instances unusually long text messages (such as GRGR or MDMD). A better
way to make pictures available is to put them up on the web and posting
the URL. If you don't have the resources or the space, then any number
of foax on the list should be willing to put them up on their web pages.

3. Messages containing subscribe/unsubscribe requests. This is intended
to catch the commands mistakenly sent to the list address instead of the
list server address, but occasionally misfires when a normal posting
contains the keywords in the first few lines. 

Murthy

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Murthy Yenamandra, Dept of CompSci, U of Minnesota. mailto:yenamand at cs.umn.edu
"Every heart/to love will come/but like a refugee" - Leonard Cohen